I tried what you suggested: rootnoverify (hd0,4) chainloader +1
and root (hd0,4) chainloader (hd0,4) +1
It just hangs on the rootnoverify one. The root one gives the error: "Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7"
Anyone know what this means or should I try my luck with GRUB
You are trying your luck with GRUB.
Anyway, type 0x7 is NTFS.
I really am puzzled about you booting from an extended partition. I'm pretty sure that just isn't possible in Windows. In fact, I just dug up an MS Knowledge Base article about how this isn't possible. Have a look at it yourself.
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314470>
If you have your "boot partition" on a logical partition that's fine, but your "system partition" has to be the first _primary_ partition on the first drive.
From the knowledge base article:
On Intel 186-and-higher-based computers (only the "x86" line), the system partition must be a primary partition that is marked active. On this line of Intel computers, this is always drive 0: the drive that the system BIOS searches when the operating system starts.
Not that Windows XP would run on a 186 processor anyway :)
I guess it's not a requirement if you're on an Alpha or an Itanium...
It might be possible to fix this problem with Partition Magic, or even maybe with qtparted. What you'd have to do is make the partition a primary one instead of logical. It doesn't have to be the first primary partition. But even then you might be out of luck, you'd have to find a way to convince windows that this partition is the system partition.
I'd be willing to help (in person) to see if some solution can be reached, but your best bet might be to get any important data off of there (using Knoppix, or just whatever Linux you have if you've got the NTFS driver) and start over, this time with Windows on a primary partition, preferably the first one.
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